Quotes About Fathers

You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

you are to say, ëYour servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.í Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

These men were appointed from the congregation; they were the leaders of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the clans of Israel.

The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.

Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.

And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,

to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.